Re: Lilypond Syntax Development and 3.0

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 1. August 2009 09:52:59 schrieb Trevor Daniels:
> > CRESCENDO
> >
> > Reinhold and Frederick: as you may have guessed, I'm proposing
> > that your patch waits until 3.0.  Anything requiring such manual
> > tweaks will make some people very unhappy, such as mutopia.
> >
> > This also serves as test of developers: we've avoided getting
> > "pinned down" with the input syntax because that would limit
> > development.  How do you two feel about your hard work on the \cr
> > stuff being delayed by up to a year?  I don't like asking this,
> > but I think there are solid reasons for it.
>
> This would be a pity.  I've now forgotten the
> details of the cr changes, but cannot a way be
> found to introduce the new versions now while
> retaining the deprecated versions until 3.0?
> Even a partial introduction now would help users.

New patch, just for the backend:
http://codereview.appspot.com/109072

The definition of \cresc etc. is still unchanged, but one can now define one's 
own command instead (or overwrite the definition of \cresc).

Cheers,
Reinhold
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